HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – If you were at the Von Braun Center Saturday, you might have met K4HVA, or talked to KI4ZYX, or maybe shared lunch with N4WN, possibly told a joke to KS4V, and maybe even smiled at KF4YZG.

Huntsville Hamfest, part the ARRL's 2014 centennial celebration, filled the VBC South Hall with antennae, radios, and every electronic testing gadget you can imagine. HAMs, or amateur radio enthusiasts, perused the tables filled with everything from the latest radio to hear the unrest in Ukraine to an old-transmitting-tube WWII-era radios.

Radio enthusiast, or HAMs, fill the South Hall of the VBC with radios and all kind of electronics imaginable during the Huntsville Hamfest . (Eric Schultz / eschultz@al.com)Eric Schultz

For HAMs, the Huntsville Hamfest is a chance to greet one another by their call signs, talk about the muscles you pulled raising that 75-foot antenna the wife just loves in the backyard, or use your HAM radio to talk to someone halfway around the world.

American Radio Relay League (ARRL) President Kay Craigie, as well as the Alabama Young Ham of the Year, Daniel Smith, KV4LQ were a couple of 'radio celebrities' walking amongst the radio enthusiasts in the giant hall.

The hamfest will be open to the public again on Sunday, 9:00–3:00 p.m. The coveted Grand prize drawing will be Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

HAM radio license exams are also offered at the event. Exams will begin at 10:00 Sunday in the curtained area outside the South Hall. Bring your original license, copy of same, any CSCE's you want to present, some means of personal identification and the $15 test fee.